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  Consul is a highly available and distributed service discovery and KV
  store designed with support for the modern data center to make distributed
  systems and configuration easy.
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              <span>New</span> HashiCorp Consul 1.5 has been released! Download now <span><svg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' width='6' height='10' viewBox='0 0 6 10'><path fill='#650D34' d='M1.138.529a.666.666 0 1 0-.942.943L3.724 5 .195 8.53a.666.666 0 1 0 .943.943l4-4a.666.666 0 0 0 0-.943l-4-4z'/></svg><span>
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            <h1>Service Mesh Made Easy</h1>
            <p>Consul is a distributed service mesh to connect, secure, and configure services across any runtime platform and public or private cloud</p>
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              <span>CLI</span>
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        <h2>Service-based networking for dynamic infrastructure</h2>
        <p>The shift from static infrastructure to dynamic
          infrastructure changes the approach to networking from host-based to
          service-based. Connectivity moves from the use of static IPs to
          dynamic service discovery, and security moves from static firewalls to
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          <h3>Static</h3>
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          <h3>Dynamic</h3>
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            <h3>Service Discovery <span>for connectivity</h3>
            <p>Service Registry enables services to register and discover each other.</p>
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            <h3>Service Segmentation <span>for security</h3>
            <p>Secure service-to-service communication with automatic TLS encryption and identity-based authorization.</p>
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            <h3>Service Configuration <span>for runtime configuration</h3>
            <p>Feature rich Key/Value store to easily configure services.</p>
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            <h3>API-Driven</h3>
            <p>Codify and automate service definitions, health checks, service
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              <code>$ curl <code class='keyword'>http://localhost:8500/v1/kv/deployment</code>
[
  {
    "LockIndex": 1,
    "Session": "1c3f5836-4df4-0e26-6697-90dcce78acd9",
    "Value": "Zm9v",
    "Flags": 0,
    "Key": "deployment",
    "CreateIndex": 13,
    "ModifyIndex": 19
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]</code>
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            <h3>Run and Connect Anywhere</h3>
            <p>Connect services across any runtime platform and public or private cloud. Connect services from Kubernetes to VMs, Containers to Serverless functions.</p>
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            <h3>Extend and Integrate</h3>
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              <li>Provision clusters on any infrastructure.</li>
              <li>Connect to services over TLS via proxy integrations.</li>
              <li>Serve TLS certificates with pluggable Certificate Authorities.</li>
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        <h3>Companies that trust Consul</h3>
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        <p>Consul Open Source addresses the technical complexity of connecting services across distributed infrastructure.</p>
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        <p>Consul Enterprise addresses the organizational complexity of large user bases and compliance requirements with collaboration and governance features.</p>
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